> I wonder if it's the equivalent of making trauma victims describe the traumatic event in detail; an attempt to give higher weight to the raw experience pathwa

> I wonder if it's the equivalent of making trauma victims describe the traumatic event in detail; an attempt to give higher weight to the raw experience pathway compared to the prior pathway. > The other promising source of hope is psychedelics. For me, what this part if the essay points to is that everyone needs to do their own work, in whatever context, and there's no getting around that. Experts, authorities, and managers need to find the line between facilitating a process and doing the process themselves. You can't make anyone believe anything or do anything. You can only hope to facilitate the conditions where helpful beliefs and accomplishments arise. I hope this is one significant cultural shift during my lifetime. The 20th century was about creating expertise and giving that expertise authority, which is just another expression of the dominator paradigm.